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the hair pencil yellow; the mat of spatulate scales near inner border pale 

 yellow : under surfaces fuscous, with a faint, coppery reflection : legs and 

 thorax beneath gray, posterior tibiae and tarsi white above and grayish- 

 fucous beneath. Abdomen fuscous. 



Described from two specimens bred June i, 1876, from acorns, 

 mostly those infested with Balaninns larvEe. Either a genuine 

 acorn borer or inquihnous. Kirkwood, Mo. One from Dallas, 

 Tex. (Boll.) 



I have given the above description of the male of what is doubt- 

 less Carpocapsa latiferreana Wlsm. (N. A. Tortricidae, p. 70, pi. 76, 

 f. 8) because the genus is at once distinguished*from Carpocapsa 

 iby the greatly dilated posterior legs of the male, and in order to 

 ■show the varietal differences indicated by Walsingham, strength- 

 ened by the black streaks in the ocellated spot being longitudinal, 

 not transverse. As his two specimens were ?s and mine are 

 both c?s, the presumption is that these colorational differences are 

 not of specific value, and this is Prof. Fernald's conclusion after 

 seeing the types and comparing specimens from New Hampshire 

 and Texas. Should future observation show them to be distinct, 

 I would propose for mine the name of aurichalceana, the speci- 

 mens being so referred to by Walsingham. 



Phoxopteris MURTFELDTIANA, n.sp. — J". Expanse lo mm. White, the 

 primaries with a dark brown patch on basal half of inner margin and with 

 an oblique fascia extending from the middle of costa. Head reddish- 

 brown ; palpi white, tinged with brown at base. Thorax white, becoming 

 embrowned on the disc: primaries white, the apical half .-shaded with fer- 

 ruginous, with a broad blackish-brown patch on the basal half of the inner 

 margin, the patch rounded on its costal border and having a very indis- 

 tinct coppery reflection from some of the scales in particular lights; from 

 the middle of the costa an oblique reddish-brown fascia extending to form 

 a sharp angle just before the apex of wing (there enclosing two black 

 streaks) and retreating suddenly to curve around the ocellaled patch, into 

 which it sometimes sends a sliglit angle, and to attain the inner margin of 

 the wing; this fascia much pale,* on its inner half than on its costal half, 

 bounded exteriorly, from costa to inner margin, by a white line and shading 

 ■oft' on the inner half of its basal border into the white ground color ; costa 

 TDcyond the fascia to the apex streaked with white and ferruginous, the 

 apex ferruginous, just below the apex two white streaks ; ocellated patch 

 •white, generally containing a black streak; posterior margin ferruginous; 

 fringes tinged with ferruginous, pale at base, darker at apical angle : 

 secondaries gray: nnder suijaces gr&y; primaries shaded with fuscous: 

 legs white, with the usual fuscous shadings on tarsi. Abdomen gray, sil- 

 very beneath. 



